by Charlie Barnett | Dec 31, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, Home Page, News
My jazz band, Chaise Lounge, may be on permanent hiatus, but our music is having an afterlife—especially around the holidays. In years past, our numbers have been featured in made-for-cable holiday movies, and recently, Etsy used an instrumental version of our song... by Charlie Barnett | Dec 28, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News, Theatre
Here is the link to all my plays! https://newplayexchange.org/users/8897/charlie-barnett
by Charlie Barnett | Jul 24, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News
This fall, I will be doing a workshop performance of my musical The Last Days of Cleopatra, a farce about the scandalous lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and the making of one of the worst movies ever made: 1962’s Cleopatra. Everything about this show...
by Charlie Barnett | Jul 1, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, News
The new Civil Rights musical that I started in April of 2020, When We Get There, has finally found its way to the stage, with two readings in New York’s West Village on June 27 and 28. I wrote the music and lyrics for the show, and my collaborators Richard...
by Charlie Barnett | Feb 25, 2022 | Charlie's Blog, Home Page, News
In December, after working together online for nearly two years, I finally met one of my two collaborators on the musical When We Get There, which tells the story of a road trip to the fateful 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama. Richard Lasser of Seattle, who...
by Charlie Barnett | Jan 30, 2022 | Home Page, News
The String Queens, a Washington, DC, trio, are on the rise. Since playing at the Biden inauguration last year, the three musicians seem to be everywhere. I was honored to be asked to arrange the orchestral music for their debut concert with the Capital City Symphony...
